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. 23. men's: 11. women's: 12 Region Headquarters Commissioner (since 2009) Website Locations The Mid-American Conference ( MAC) is a (NCAA) collegiate with a membership base in the that stretches from to. Nine of the twelve full member schools are in and, with single members located in Illinois, and New York. For, the MAC participates in the NCAA's.
The MAC is headquartered in the district in downtown, and has two members in the nearby. The MAC has been referred to as the 'Conference of Quarterbacks' because of the accomplishments of numerous former players in the.
The conference also ranks highest among all ten NCAA Division I FBS conferences for graduation rates. Locations of the full members of the Mid-American Conference. The five charter members of the Mid-American Conference were, the, (now Wayne State University), and Western Reserve University, one of the predecessors to today's. Wayne University left after the first year. And took the place of those charter members for the 1948 season. The MAC added the (1950), (1951), and (1952). The resigned its membership February 18, 1953, with an effective date of June 1, 1953.
Cincinnati's decision was based on a new requirement that at least 5 conference football games would have to be scheduled each season, University President saying they '.regretfully resign.as the university could not continue under the present setup.' The membership was steady for the next two decades except for the addition of in 1954 and the departure of Western Reserve in 1955. Marshall was expelled from the conference in 1969 due to NCAA violations.
The first major expansion since the 1950s took place in the mid-1970s with the addition of and in 1972 and and in 1973. NIU left after the 1985–86 season. The joined the conference in 1992. The conference became the largest in Division I-A with the re-admittance of Marshall and NIU in 1997 and addition of the from the in 1998.
The, a non-football all-sports member in the at the time, joined for football only in 2002, becoming the first football-only member in conference history. Marshall and Central Florida left after the 2004–05 academic year, both joining in all sports. In May 2005, the in signed a six-year contract with the MAC as a football-only school and began play in the East Division in 2007. The were a MAC affiliate for field hockey for a number of years when Louisville was a member of the and Conference USA, winning two MAC tourney titles in 2003 and 2004. The, and participate in the MAC for men's swimming and diving. In 2012, the joined the and as men's soccer affiliates. Florida Atlantic departed upon joining Conference USA in 2013.
Hartwick's contract was not renewed by the MAC in 2015., and are wrestling affiliates. The are also an affiliate for field hockey along with.
Is an affiliate in men's tennis. In June 2017, (SIUE) was invited to become an affiliate member in both men's soccer and wrestling in 2018. When Buffalo suddenly dropped four sports, including men's soccer, SIUE's move in that sport was made immediately. The joined the MAC as a football-only member in July 2012; the university announced that the team would leave the MAC at the end of the 2015 season due to contractual issues. Meanwhile, Temple ended its affiliation with the MAC in football and joined the for football in July 2012. Following the into football-sponsoring and non-football conferences in July 2013, Temple became a full member of the football-sponsoring portion, the, ending its membership in the at that time.
The were an affiliate for men's tennis until joining the, which sponsors that sport, in July 2013. Member schools Current members There are twelve public schools with full membership: Institution Location Founded Joined Enrollment Nickname Colors East Division 1870 1992 22,169 1910 1952 18,756 1846 1998 30,183 1910 1951 30,067 1809 1947 18,907 1804 1946 23,701 West Division 1918 1973 20,113 1892 1971 27,693 1849 1971 22,974 1895 1975, 1997 25,313 1872 1950 23,085 1903 1947 25,045 Current affiliate members Ten schools have MAC affiliate membership status. On July 1, 2012, Temple joined the for football only (the school's other sports would join the Big East/ for 2013–14), and Massachusetts replaced Temple as a football-only member in the MAC East Division.
On September 19, 2012, the MAC announced, and would join as affiliates; as the Southeastern and Missouri Valley Conferences do not sponsor wrestling. Missouri and Northern Iowa participated only in the conference tournament in the 2012–13 school year, and began full conference play in 2013–14. Old Dominion did not begin MAC competition until 2013–14, when it left the (which had sponsored wrestling, but ) for (which has never sponsored the sport). On July 1, 2013, Florida Atlantic's men's soccer program moved with the rest of its athletic program to Conference USA, and Chicago State's men's tennis team followed the rest of its sports to the. The 2014–15 school year saw one affiliate member leave for another conference and two new affiliates join. The Hartwick men's soccer team left the MAC for the, which had announced in February 2014 that it would reinstate men's soccer, a sport that it last sponsored in 1995, for the 2014 season.
The new affiliates for 2014–15 were in men's tennis and in field hockey. On July 1, 2017, one associate member left the MAC, another associate member dropped one of its two MAC sports, and two new schools became associate members. Northern Iowa wrestling moved from the MAC to the. Dropped field hockey, but remained a MAC member in men's swimming & diving. Joined MAC field hockey, and (SIUE) joined in men's soccer.
SIUE was initially announced as joining in both men's soccer and wrestling in 2018, but less than a week after the initial announcement, the conference indicated that SIUE men's soccer would immediately join. SIUE wrestling joined on its originally announced schedule. Institution Location Founded Type Enrollment Nickname Colors Primary Conference MAC Sport(s) 1899 Public 19,089 Field Hockey 1946 Public 16,098 men's tennis 1854 Private 3,050 men's swimming 1839 Public 4,800 field hockey 1839 Public 34,255 wrestling 1905 Public 21,425 men's swimming 1930 Public 24,730 wrestling 1869 Public 17,964 men's swimming 1957 Public 14,142 men's soccer wrestling 1867 Public 29,616 men's soccer Former members School names, nicknames, and colors listed here reflect those used during each school's MAC tenure. Wayne University became Wayne State University in 1956, with athletic teams changing from to Warriors in 1999. The, known as the Golden Knights during their MAC tenure, dropped 'Golden' from the athletic nickname in 2007 as part of their rebrand to the. Western Reserve University, whose teams were known as the Red Cats during their time in the MAC, merged with Case Institute of Technology in 1967 to form, with the athletic programs merging in 1971.
With the athletic merger, Case Western abandoned the nicknames of both former institutions and adopted. (IPFW), known as the IPFW Mastodons during their affiliation with the MAC for men's soccer and men's tennis, rebranded their athletic program as the Fort Wayne Mastodons in 2016. Following IPFW's split into two separate institutions in July 2018, the Fort Wayne athletic program transferred to the larger of the two new institutions, and the athletic program rebranded again as the. The school colors changed to the old gold and black used by the other members of the, most notably the.
This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged. (June 2017). Dave Reese, 1946–1964. Bob James, 1964–1971. Fred Jacoby, 1971–1982. Jim Lessig, 1982–1990., 1990–1994., 1994–1999., 1999–2009., 2009–present Sports The Mid-American Conference sponsors championship competition in 11 men's and 12 women's NCAA sanctioned sports.
As of the 2018–19 school year, 10 schools are associate members for five sports. As the MAC is an FBS conference, its full members are subject to the NCAA requirement that FBS members field teams in at least 16 NCAA-recognized sports. However, the MAC itself requires sponsorship of only four sports: football, men's and women's basketball, and women's volleyball. Akron plans to reinstate baseball effective in 2019–20. Affiliate members SIUE and West Virginia. Affiliate members Evansville, Missouri State, and Southern Illinois. Affiliate member Binghamton.
Affiliates Missouri, Old Dominion, and SIUE Men's varsity sports not sponsored by the MAC School Ice hockey Rifle 1 Volleyball Akron No No Ball State No No Bowling Green No No Miami No No Western Michigan No No Notes: 1: Rifle is technically a men's sport, but men's, women's, and coed teams all compete against each other. Akron fields a coed team. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (June 2017) Team First season All-time record All-time win% Bowl appearances Bowl record MAC titles Other conference titles Stadium Head coach East Division 1891 508–526–36.492 2 1–1 1 0 1919 533–364–52.589 13 5–8 12 5 1894 385–514–28.430 2 0–2 1 1 1920 335–535–28.389 2 0–2 1 0 1888 674–446–44.598 10 7–3 15 7 1894 545–552–47.498 9 2–7 5 6 West Division 1924 439–402–32.521 7 0–7 5 5 1896 603–400–37.598 9 3–6 7 9 1891 443–576–47.438 2 1–1 1 9 1899 566–475–51.542 11 4–7 5 8 1917 517–416–24.553 15 10–5 10 3 1905 556–439–24.557 7 1–6 3 1 MAC champions. Main article: Bowl games In 2017, the MAC is contracted to provide a team for each of the four college football: the,. The MAC also has secondary agreements with the and with several.
Name Location Opposing conference Notes. The MAC Champion (if not invited to the College Football Playoff or its associated bowls) is not contractually obligated to any specific bowl. The conference and the universities select which teams will play in which of the league's affiliated bowls. College Football Playoff The MAC champion receives an automatic berth in one of the so-called 'New Year's Six' bowl games associated with the under either of the following circumstances::.
Selected as one of the top four teams overall by the CFP selection committee, in which case the team will play in a CFP national semifinal. Ranked by the committee as the top champion among the five conferences (, MAC, ) given access to one of the CFP bowls, in which case the team will play in the so-called 'Access Bowl' as an at-large selection. The first 'Access Bowl' berth in 2014 went to Boise State (MW); the 2015 berth went to Houston (American). The MAC got its first berth in 2016 with Western Michigan.
During the era of the now-defunct (BCS), one MAC team appeared in a BCS bowl game. In, qualified by being ranked in the top 16 (15th) in the season's final BCS standings, and also higher than at least one champion of a conference that received an automatic berth in a BCS game. In the 2012 season, two such conference champions were ranked below NIU: champion, who was ranked 22nd, and champion, who was unranked. NIU lost to in the. Rivalries. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
See also: In August 2010, Commissioner Jon Steinbrecher and the announced that the Mid-American Conference Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments would remain in Cleveland at through 2017. Both tournaments have flourished since moving to Cleveland in 2000, with the men's semi-finals and championship regularly drawing large crowds at Quicken Loans Arena. In 2007, the MAC also announced a format change for both tournaments, bringing all twelve men's and women's teams to Cleveland. The MAC also co-hosted the at Quicken Loans Arena after successfully hosting the at the same facility. Championships. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
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